SportStar EPOS electric aircraft takes to the skies

Electric aircraft development and innovation continues at a slow pace as alternatives to fuel guzzling airplanes are put to the test.

Russian cargo craft departs International Space Station

An unpiloted Russian Progress cargo ship departed the International Space Station (ISS) early Monday, clearing the way for Moscow's next space freighter.

These photons are running out of loopholes

A team of scientists led by Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger has conducted a potentially groundbreaking experiment with photons by closing an important loophole.

Designing better batteries with sulfur waste

Scientists at the University of Arizona have developed a new chemical process capable of transforming sulfur waste into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars. As expected, the new plastic has other potential uses, including for optical devices.

Slow your car, recharge your batteries

The Cadillac ELR is the luxurious sibling to the more pedestrian Chevrolet Volt. Recently, General Motors released info on the ELR’s "Regen on Demand," a feature unique to the latest Caddy.

Japanese SIM-Cel is a slick EV prototype

SIM-Drive in Japan, a coalition of 34 different companies tasked with creating a Japanese, all-electric prototype vehicle, announced recently it was now on the third iteration of its vision.

Winter comes to Titan

The change of seasons on Titan is creating new cloud patterns at Titan's south pole.

Will Butanol end up in your gas tank?

New research could speed the nascent switch from ethanol to butanol.

Underground explosions blamed for Martian craters

Dramatic underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, are responsible for the pits inside these two large martian impact craters, recently imaged by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express.

The Maya calendar decoded

The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, has been empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar.

Growing a green forest in the desert

Deserts are stark environments where extreme heat, cold, and lack of moisture mean only the hardiest of species can survive there.

Resurrecting the Flying Electron

Thirty years ago, Claude Chudzik of France developed the CC01, a single-pilot plane. The CC01 is a "canard" style aircraft due to its unique design and propeller in back.

Evaluating Bose-Einstein for quantum computing

Quantum computers offer us the potential of performing certain types of operations much more quickly than conventional digital computers.

Oldest dinosaur embryos found in China

An international team of researchers, including a paleontologist from the University of Bonn, have determined that a set of dinosaur embryos are the oldest ever found. Indeed, the specimens of Lufengosaurus discovered in China lived during the lower Jurassic about 200 to 190 million years ago.

Bring your umbrella to Saturn

A new study tracking the "rain" of charged water particles into the atmosphere of Saturn has found there is more of it and it falls across larger areas of the planet than previously thought.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050

The nonprofit National Research Council (NRC) recently issued a report on how America can reduce its petroleum, or gasoline, use and greenhouse gas emissions by vehicles by 2050.

This ghostly green bubble is a planetary nebula

Stars the size of the Sun typically end their lives as tiny and faint white dwarf stars. But as they make the final transition into retirement their atmospheres are blown away into space.

Will germanium replace silicon in semiconductors?

The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can apparently be modified in a new way to advance future electronics.

This single-photon emitter optimizes quantum cryptography

University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simpler, more efficient single-photon emitter that can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques.

Microrockets could navigate human arteries

Significant advances in micromotor technology is paving the way for broad new medical and industrial uses of the tiny devices.